Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
979733 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2006 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
The new modified form of the Pople-Karasz theory of melting of molecular crystals was introduced and applied to investigate the thermodynamics of melting, solid-solid, solid-nematic and nematic-isotropic liquid transitions in the previous papers. In this paper, we give the complete pictures of the transition temperatures and compare with the original Pople-Karasz (PK) theory and its previous modified theories. We also found that the new modified model also gives a much better agreement with available experimental data for the solid-nematic transition than the PK and its previous modified theories by using the different adjustable parameters.
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